As a former medical field flunky, flu-like + neck pain is a pretty good meningitis giveaway.
Yeah, I know. I'm not even certified to do CPR, and I knew that. I'm just trying to imagine what the fuck sort of doctor gives you a laundry list of pain pills over the phone for what he thinks is the flu.
It's a good thing Neil's assistant was on the ball, because meningitis can really do damage.
I never did like how she was treated like some uber traitor just because she wanted to get on with her life and do some normal things.
Neither did I. Especially since it seemed like she was being punished for wanting to take control of her own destiny and live life on her own, stable kind of terms instead of holding off the entire process of growing up so that Aslan can sweep her back to Narnia whenever the fuck he feels like it.
And if you take the Aslan = Jesus metaphor into account, she's actually kind of like Lillith. She's being punished for the sin of saying, "Umm, no" whenever the big patriarchal God starts getting outrageous and demanding things for no good reason.
I had a teacher once tell me that it was because Susan had given into vanity and become superficial. And that sort of made me mad. Because apparently growing up and expressing any kind of sexuality is a no-no for girls in the Narnia-verse.
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Date: 2008-06-09 11:41 pm (UTC)Yeah, I know. I'm not even certified to do CPR, and I knew that. I'm just trying to imagine what the fuck sort of doctor gives you a laundry list of pain pills over the phone for what he thinks is the flu.
It's a good thing Neil's assistant was on the ball, because meningitis can really do damage.
I never did like how she was treated like some uber traitor just because she wanted to get on with her life and do some normal things.
Neither did I. Especially since it seemed like she was being punished for wanting to take control of her own destiny and live life on her own, stable kind of terms instead of holding off the entire process of growing up so that Aslan can sweep her back to Narnia whenever the fuck he feels like it.
And if you take the Aslan = Jesus metaphor into account, she's actually kind of like Lillith. She's being punished for the sin of saying, "Umm, no" whenever the big patriarchal God starts getting outrageous and demanding things for no good reason.
I had a teacher once tell me that it was because Susan had given into vanity and become superficial. And that sort of made me mad. Because apparently growing up and expressing any kind of sexuality is a no-no for girls in the Narnia-verse.